Panchpara or Panch Para ( bn, পাঁচপাড়া, Pānchpāṛā, Five neighbourhoods) is a
village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
located in Ward 2 of
South Shahbazpur Union, in
Barlekha Upazila
Barlekha ( bn, বড়লেখা, Bôrlekha) is an upazila (sub-district) of Moulvibazar District, located in Bangladesh's Sylhet Division.
Etymology
Barlekha Upazila is named after Barlekha (formerly 'Barlikha') which means Great ''Likha''. ' ...
,
Moulvibazar District
Moulvibazar ( bn, মৌলভীবাজার) also spelled Maulvibazar, Moulavibazar, and Maulavibazar, (former South Sylhet) is the southeastern district of Sylhet Division in northeastern Bangladesh, named after the town of Moulvibazar. It i ...
,
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
.
The village has a population of 2,399 and consists mostly of
Bengali Muslims
Bengali Muslims ( bn, বাঙালি মুসলমান; ) are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis. Comprising about two-thirds of the global Bengali population, they are the sec ...
of
Sylheti descent. There are three mosques in the village and these are: West Panchpara Jame Masjid, East Panchpara Jame Masjid and Central Panchpara Jame Masjid.
See also
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Divisions of Bangladesh
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Districts of Bangladesh
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List of villages in Bangladesh
This is a list of villages in Bangladesh. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Some villages in Bangladesh may be cov ...
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Upazilas of Bangladesh
An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a ...
References
Villages in Maulvibazar District
Barlekha Upazila
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